Occasional Articles — Why Mel Gibson Is a Dick & The Sad State of the Chinese Environment

A word of warning — these here Occasional Articles posts are going to include a lot of Slate Magazine (given that it is, as far as I’m concerned, the pre-eminent free, online magazine), and that in turn is going to mean a lot of Christopher Hitchens, because, well . . . that actually speaks for itself. So let’s bring up Hitch first:

Next, how dirty is China? C’mon everyone, say it with me — how dirty is China? So dirty that even when they try to build something new and spectacular it’s in danger of being undone by the sheer amount of filth floating around. Almost makes one want to scream.